Life — May 3, 1917 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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805 The Message of the Money Grubbers W! LL, Uncle Sam, the flag, they say, Is branded with the dollar sign; And yet it doesn’t seem that way, From what we've seen along the line. We're not in business for our health, So far as total strangers go; But if you ask us for our wealth, Our answer, Uncle, won't be No. They say that money is our life— To aught but profits we are lost: They say so; but in times of strife, All goods we make are yours at cost. Kuh R, Systematized I AM a magazine writer, and have a very simple method of determining which of my manuscripts will sell and which will not, I simply hand them to my wife. My wife reads each manuscript very carefully, separating them into two little piles as she does so. When she is all through she hands me one of the piles and says, “ These are very good; the others are poor!” I take the manuscripts that my wife says are very good, and go down in the basement, where I throw them in the furnace. The others I send to the editors, and receive praise and gener- ous checks. I would not know how to get along without my wife for a criti William Sanford, GREAT FIGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN NAVY ADMIRAL JOSEPHUS DANIELS, WHEN SHOT IN THE HEAD BY A NEW IDEA, CRIED, “ DON'T GIVE UP THE GRAPE JUICE!” Revolutionizing Laws \WHEN revolutions occur it is man’s laws only, not God’s, that are affected. This is because man’s laws are not laws at all, but merely attempts to establish something as law. God's laws, on the other hand, are not subject to revo- lution. They are made right in the beginning, and are un- changeable. Man's only connection with them is to dis- cover them, apply them and conform to them. No nation or community could be so ignorant as to try to start a revolution against the law of gravitation, but revolutions will continue to occur so long as men set down their opin- ions in a formal way and try to dignify them with the name of law. Ellis O. Jones. “YoU CAN TAKE IT AWAY NOW, MARS. I'M OFF”